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'idi The snap bean season has
JJA reached the levelling off point
-vi&. 1 1 and Piekers iust about equal the
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f some instances aaamonai pick-
Viy"n,i ers could be used to advantage
tV? hut thp overall nlcturp Is fair-
A telephone call from Stayton
Wednesday morning revealed
that the situation there is under
control. Since this section of
the bean area is usually the one
where labor fails to equal the
demand, it is taKen as a fairly
good indication that the crop
is being handled in a satisfac
tory manner.
Between three and four hun
dred bean pickers are being
loaded early each morning from
the labor office at South Cot
tage and Ferry streets.
Additional hands could be
employed in the harvest of the
early varieties of hops.
Just what the situation will
be in the prune orchards has not
been determined. A better
than average crop is reported.
. Along the River Seventy years ago Butteville, above, at
the northern extremity of French prairie hummed with ship
ping and commercial activity. Now, like all of the other 113
landings between Salem and Canemah, only weathered piling
indicate where the docks might have been at Butteville and
willows have overgrown the waterfront. Below, Norman
Kennedy's speedboat which made Canemah in four hours.
The Willamette between Salem and Canemah, now a suburb
of Oregon City, was explored to discover sites of wheat
ports and steamboat landings that flourished along the stream
in the 1880s.
Cameraman Turns Sailor;
Makes Voyage to Canemah
By BEN MAXWELL
Boating today downstream on the Willamette from Salem to
Canemah is like visiting an old cemetery where 113 distinguished
ncients lie buried beneath tottering tombstones, whose very
inscriptions are fast becoming illegible.
Captain Arthur Biggs, a veteran Willamette pilot in his com
pilation of steamboat landings
between Springfield and the
confluence of the Willamette
with the Columbia, names 113
landings between Salem and
Canemah. Except for Butte
ville and two or three others
all have practically vanished.
Savage landing, the first below
Salem, Lincoln, Wheatland, Hell
Roaring Smith's and Winoo
skie's are now only names or
vestiges to intrigue the im
magination of the antiquarian.
Norwaln Kennedy invited the
Journal's representative to ride
in his new speedboat on a run
between Salem and Canemah
now the westen surburb of Ore
gon City). When the light, 15
foot craft propelled by a 22
horsepower outboard motor left
Salem at 7:30 last Saturday
morning the chill of autumn was
upon the river.
At Salem the Willamette is
slow, odoriferous and dirty.
When the craft, turning upward
to 25 miles an hour, reached
Spong's landing the smell of
sewage and decomposing debris
was not conspicuous. But the
waters had not clarified. Slimy,
repulsive marine growths per
meated the stream all the 65
miles to Canemah.
Walter Gerth came to Lincoln
more than 60 years ago and re
calls the 1890's when this water
front town was the great 'wheat
port on the mid - Willamette.
One authority says 350,000 bu
shels passed through Lincoln in
a single season. Gerth recalls
shipping 125,000 bushels a year
in his own time as not uncom
mon. '
Lincoln originated as Doak's
ferry in the early 1850's. Forty
years later docks, warehouses
and industrial plants and indus
tries located here lined the west
bank of the Willamette for al
most a mile. Gerth also recalls
that three steamboats represent
ing different lines regularly call
ed at Lincoln for cargo and that
during the autumn, when grain
was delivered to the several
warehouses, bustled with busi
ness and impatient farmers long
delayed in making deliveries.
Wheat was king of all crops
in the Willamette valley for 25
years after the Helen Angier
cleared the Columbia river with
that initial cargo of Willamette
valley grain shipped to Liver
pool by James Watt. Today
only warped remains of a single
dock constructed after 1910 re
mains at Lincoln. But this is
not visible from the river,
though Gerth says the anti
quarian may find it If he search
es through the dense brush.
At Wheatland, 13 miles be
low Salem, the story is repeat
ed. In 1881 the place had a
district school, Evangelical
church, the Wheatland and Oc
cidental hotels, warehouses,
docks, a grist mill and T. T.
Cooper's saloon. Today there
is a ferry crossing and the Daniel
Matheny placidly follows a
course fixed by a cable. Little
or nothing more remains to sug
gest a flourishing wheat port of
60 years ago.
And so it is with Fairfield and
Butteville. A few old pilings,
black with age mark the site of
forgotten landings whose names
alone are perpetuated by his
tory. Only Mill s woodyard on
the west side of the Willamette
a quarter of a mile above
Wheatland retains the appear
ance of a steamboat landing.
Others, without Identification
are stubs of piling protruding
above the water and through the
willows like the grim, skeletal
remains of some prehistoric
monster.
Except for mechanical dif
ficulties to be expected with a
new motor the speedboat scur
ried downstream to reach the
moorage near Canemah. Foam
gathered about her transom as
she hurtled along through swift,
narrows where the converging
rivers gushed with astonishing
velocity. Through such tortu
ous and restricted channels raf
ters, operating powerful propel
lor tugs, guide long tows of logs
with a skill that would astonish
sternwheel captain of yesterday.
Four hours running time
brought the speedboat to her
moorage. Oldtimers would de
clare the time fair but nothing
like the record established by
the Ruth. On June 2, 1896, that
sternwheeler left the locks at
Oregon City at 7:26 and under
a full head of steam pushed up
stream to Salem in five hours
and 49 minutes. Certainly that
was longer than it took the
speedboat to reach Canemah.
But the Ruth was headed up
stream and stopped at landings
no longer visible to speedboat
enthusiasts.
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AND VETERANS
Wednesday, August 17
Kingwood past No. 81. American
Legion at the Kingwood American
Legion Hall in west aalem.
amn Flew Artillery Dattaiion at
Army Reserve auonset huts.
Headquarters ana neaaquarcers
company 318th replacement depot
and 635th organized reserve corps
composite group at Army Reserve
quonset nuts.
Military Manpower committee ai
7:30 p.m. in room 211 of the Post
umce Duiiding.
Thursday, August 18
Company O, 162nd Infantry regi
ment. Oregon National Guard, at
Salem armory.
organized Naval Reserve Surface
division, at the Naval and Marine
Corps Reserve training center.
Friday, August 19
Organized Seabee division at Na
val and Marine Corps Reserve train
ing center.
veterans service committee at
the Spa at noon.
Plane Cuts Time
Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 17 WP)
A Canadian Pacific Air Lines
plane flew directly from Shemya
in the Aleutians to Vancouver
last night, cutting more than six
hours from the normal flying
time between Hong Kong and
Canada.
Lon McCallister and Peggy Ann Garner in a rumantiC
scene from "The Big Cat," an Eagle-Lion release, in color by
Technicolor and starting tomorrow at the Grand with "Sham
rock Hill."
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Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1949 21
Spokane Check
Artist Nabbed
Melvyn D. Dahlberg of Spo
kane, Wash., was lodged in the
Marion county tail Wednesday
in lieu of $1000 bail on a check-
writing charge. He was arrested
by a city detective while walk
ing in the 200 block of North
Commercial street Tuesday afternoon.
The young man has confessed
to writing nine fictitious checks
in Salem. Some of these checks
were written on First National
bank blanks, and others on Ladd
and Bush check blanks. They all
came back from the banks with
the notation "unable to locate
account."
Dahlberg signed his own
name to all but one of the
checks, and, oddly enough, it
was the check in which he used
an alias that led to his arrest.
Handle Oil company accepted
a check dated August 10 from
Frank R. Willard. A detective
recognized the handwriting on
this check as the same as Dahl-
berg's so began to look for the
check writer.
He was found to be staying at
Hotel Salem under the assumed
name of Melvyn Bowers.
Asks Asian Pact President
Syngman Rhee (above) of
Korea has asked Philippine
President Quirino to call a
conference to form an Asian
union against communism.
state board in matters of policy
and administration.
judy Garland and Van Johnson make their first appearance
together as the stars of MGMs Technicolor musical romance,
"In the Good Old Summertime," which comes to the Elsinore
theater today.
Benefits for Dependents
Widows, children and dependent
parents of World War 11 veterans
who died within three years after
honorable discharge were reminded
this week by the Oregon department
of veterans' affairs that they may
De eiiglDie lor social security Dene
fits earned as the result of the
man s time in. active service.
Title II of the social security act
provides that such veterans are
deemed to have died fully insured.
to have received monthly wages of
not less than $160, and to have
been paid not less than $200 in
wages in eacn year in wnicn tney
had 30 days or more of active serv
ice after Sept, 16, 1940, under the
act.
The veteran must have had 90
days of continuous service, a part
of which must- have been between
Sept. 16, 1940. and July 25, 1947, un
less he was discharged sooner for
service incurred disabilities.
The effect of title II, approved in
August, 1946, Is to assure monthly
income payments to a widow with
minor children, or to the dependent
parents, or a lump sum payment to
the unremarried widow without
minor children, surviving a World
War II veteran discharged without
dishonor who died within three
McGrath Opens
K C Convention
Portland, Aug. 17 OT Sena
tor J. Howard McGrath urged
Catholics to battle for Chris
tianity and democracy in a
speech last night that opened
the supreme convention of the
Knights of Columbus.
The democratic party national
chairman said the church must
become militant. He warned I
that "in Europe and Asia the
old barbarities are reappearing
with a new scientific ven
geance.
McGrath then criticized what
he called the "crass materialism,
which would elevate and glorify
sense and sensuality, above
spirit and conscience" in the
United States. The Rhode Is
land senator said "piety and pa
triotism alike demand a re-minting
of the coinage of our Chris
tian civilization."
Archbishop Edward D. How
ard of Portland told the Catho
lic organization that the respon
sibility for a better world is a
personal one for every citizen.
"Reconstruction of the social
order must begin with the indi
vidual. We must be vigorously
Christian in the home and in
our daily work," he said,
Nurses Advisory
Committee Named
Gov. Douglas McKay today
announced the appointment of
six members of the state prac
tical nurses advisory council
created by the 1949 legislature.
Members are: Dr. Thomas E.
Griffith of The Dalles, repre
senting the state board of health;
Mrs. Mary A. Knecht of Eugene
and Mrs. Thelma West of Port
land, representing practical nur
ses; Wesley Lamer of Portland,
representing field of hospital
administrators, and Dorothy Vo
sen of Portland, representing di
rectors of nursing education.
The law provides for the li
censing of practical nurses and
the regulation of practical nur
sing by the state board of exam
ination and registration of gra
duate nurses. It charges the ad
visory council with the respon
sibility of consulting with the
years after his discharge.
Payments are not made, however,
where survivors are receiving death
compensation from the Veterans
Administration because of service
connected death.
Applicants were advised to con
tact their nearest social security
office, county veterans' service of
ficers, or the Portland or Salem
offices of the Department of Vet
erans' Affairs.
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smart new Cadillac body type, designed for thoie who
seek the low-swept lines and open-airiness of a con
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and safety of a closed car.
It is a classic example of modernity and practical
ity one of the most desirable and most useful models
ever to issue from the boards of Cadillac designers.
Yet smart and beautiful as it is the Coupe de
Villus greatest superiority lies in the chassis on which
it is built. For, like all Cadillacs, the core of its good
ness is found in its ptrformante'xn the wonderful
capacity of its new V-type engine; in the soft, even,
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the easy, effortless response to steering wheel and
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